Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), December 2014

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. OpenCraft - Open Source developer on Open edX (Worldwide, company based in France)<p>Consultancy specialized on the edX project, and hiring to handle increasing demand. edX is a free software project, used by various universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, class.stanford.edu, france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr for examples of edX instances.<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing custom features for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing instances, developing generic platform features, deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>A large part of your work would be published as free software (edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>You would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Applying: Email jobs@opencraft.com with: your github account, a short explanation of why you&#x27;re interested and a list of links to free software contributions you have made.

by: bowmanb
text: New York, NY - Onsite preferred<p>Canopy is looking for a UX consultant to optimize our iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps. We help 30 million people in the US who do not speak English to gain access to better healthcare, and are winners of awards from the National Institutes of Health and the City of New York to tackle this problem.<p>If you&#x27;re interested, please email brian@canopyapps.com.

by: sdramsey00
text: Estero, FL - remote &#x2F; onsite 
I am a telecom geek.  I started one of the first companies to deploy Asterisk based PBX&#x27;s for business (pre 1.2), ran over a billion minutes of wholesale telecom traffic through Freeswitch, started a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and sold it to a publicly traded telecom company where I ended up reducing their telecom spend by more than 40% and ended up being responsible for more than 25% of the companies profits in 2013.<p>I also have extensive experience with Linux Admin (Debian &#x2F; Ubuntu), Python, and have spent a lot of time in Golang.  Example project - <a href="https://github.com/shelbyramsey/sip_parser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shelbyramsey&#x2F;sip_parser</a>.<p>Now I help companies get started or step back and take a look at what they are doing.  Whether it&#x27;s strategic or getting my hands dirty I can help.<p>Feel free to reach out at sdramsey00 at yahoo.com.

by: talentcupboard
text: remote then onsite for 4 days at an event, London<p>I&#x27;m looking for a current student or recent graduate who can build iPhone apps. Currently collaborating with Pearson on a project for a very simple app to be produced to Jan 2015.<p>You&#x27;ll need a free account first (because the project carries an NDA) which you can sign up for here: <a href="http://www.codingcupboard.com/register" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codingcupboard.com&#x2F;register</a><p>Details &amp; application process here: <a href="http://www.codingcupboard.com/projects/project/public/?project_id=597" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codingcupboard.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;project&#x2F;public&#x2F;?proje...</a>

by: frankdenbow
text: REMOTE OK , Santiago, Chile<p>StartupThreads (<a href="http://startupthreads.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupthreads.com</a>)<p>Promotional Merchandise Marketing<p>We help companies make high quality apparel and send it to their customers easily. Have worked with many great companies and just launched our new dashboard last month.<p>Looking for a Rails freelancer to help our team build some new features to our dashboard and API. We care about clean code and value simplicity and completeness over speed.<p>Currently based out of Chile but fine with remote workers anywhere.<p>Stack: Ruby&#x2F;Rails, CoffeeScript, HTML&#x2F;CSS, Sidekiq, Postgres, Heroku<p>Email: support@startupthreads.com with your info &#x2F; cover letter

by: maverick2k
text: London<p>I am an independent developer, looking for someone experienced to finish off work done in python&#x2F;app engine&#x2F;searchly. It is 95% complete. (UK&#x2F;ideally London based)<p>It is a python back end that serves a mobile application developed for iOS, which I&#x27;ve coded.<p>The candidate should have the following skills:<p>- Urban airship (push notifications)
- Python&#x2F;Django (server code)
- Elastic Search&#x2F;searchly (search algorithms)
- Google App engine. (cloud service that will be used)<p>Your role will be to help me integrate both; I will provide the api documentation to guide you.<p>This is a short project and should take 1 or 2 days to do.<p>Please contact me at sam@picknchoose.me if interested

by: eli
text: Writer&#x2F;Editor - Washington, DC or Remote<p>Industry Dive, a mobile-focused digital B2B publisher, seeks freelance writers to provide articles for our rapidly growing suite of products. We regularly seek subject matter experts in a variety of business fields, including utilities, health care, education and retail. Pay varies according to assignment -- we need help with everything from daily briefs to long feature takeouts. This is not a job for beginners or generalists -- we need you to know your business field. If interested, send resume, links and writing samples to jobs@industrydive.com.

by: lukestevens
text: Remote, anywhere.<p>I&#x27;m bootstrapping an analytics Rails app and need someone to knock over the last ~100 hours or so. Budget is tight so open to anyone, anywhere :) You&#x27;ll be implementing dashboards, widgets, billing etc.<p>It&#x27;s a Rails 4&#x2F;MongoDB app with jQuery on the frontend, so I&#x27;m after someone more backend focused (&amp; with some devops skills ideally). I&#x27;ve done all the HTML&#x2F;CSS &amp; have plenty of docs to help you get up to speed quickly. If you&#x27;re reliable, available, and affordable, please get in touch :D Email ldstevens at gmail dot com. Thanks!

by: eolebe
text: NYC, Senior iOS developer with strong UI expertise.<p>We are a mobile commerce company developing a UI intensive shopping tool.  Ideally looking for someone to work from our office in Soho, but remote is OK if skills are superb with name brand tech experience.<p>The project is a consumer application needing additional functionality, 3-4 screens, social integrations and UI polish ahead of launch.  We work collaboratively, using Trello and Github, meeting&#x2F;updating&#x2F;pushing daily and utilizing our own APIs.  Back end is Node, Mongo.<p>If interested, please email CV and links to your work to jobs@ree.la.

by: morgante
text: REMOTE (New York offices)<p>We&#x27;re always looking for experienced developers to augment our team and improve our feature velocity.<p>Stack: Node, Python, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Docker (SOA)<p>At Cafe, we&#x27;re building tools for scalable storytelling: we&#x27;re improving the quality of writing on the internet through technology. With great publishing tools (our CMS is awesome) and sophisticated analytics (we&#x27;re building systems which crawl the social graph to discover the appropriate audience for every story), we&#x27;re helping great writers to reach massive audiences.<p>Email morgante@cafe.com if interested.

by: jPaolantonio
text: Remote or NYC<p>Mobile engineer (Mostly iOS, but also Android) looking for part time work (15-25 hours&#x2F;week). I love working on mobile and looking to experiment with different types of work and people. Preferably helping a startup build out a mobile client.<p>Email: jamespaolantonio (@) gmail<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/jPaolantonio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jPaolantonio</a><p>Resume: <a href="http://jpaol.co/Resume-jamespaolantonio.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jpaol.co&#x2F;Resume-jamespaolantonio.pdf</a>

by: eagsalazar2
text: SF (downtown) or Remote
Very short term (this week), Android to complete a prototype.  This prototype is partly done we just need to add a few features and fix a few bugs.   This is small but the client is super cool and the existing codebase isn&#x27;t bad to work with since it is small and implemented pretty sanely.
If you have solid Android experience and have some time the next few days, send me an email.
Email: steve@substantial.com

by: giis
text: Remote<p>We are looking for a front-end-dev with background like nodejs,express,socket.io,python &amp; familiarity with terminal emulators. It will be project allocated in monthly phases (So that we can manage the budget!).<p>If you are interested, please drop me mail with your github&#x2F;SO profile to lakshmipathi.g@giis.co.in<p>note : Our small budget will be around 250usd-500usd based the task per month. So If you are looking for bigger project with higher pay,please ignore this.

by: akhil_oneshopio
text: London,UK - No Remote
I&#x27;m building <a href="http://oneshop.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneshop.io</a> from Google Campus, London and am looking for a full-stack software engineer with an expertise in building large JS heavy apps.
Our current stack is - Python(Flask) +  CoffeeScript + Postgresql
If Interested, please email me on akhil@oneshop.io with your Github account.

by: allbombs
text: Vancouver preferred, open to exceptional remote developer. (<a href="http://promo.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;promo.co</a>)<p>Android Developer<p>Want to visit Vancouver? This could be your chance. We need some help getting the android version of our iphone application built. Promo is a mobile first marketing tool for smb&#x27;s. Shopify meets mailchimp with distribution channels.<p>No agencies or dev shops please.<p>Email: kenny@viralfoundry.com

by: jerrythompson
text: REMOTE, New York City, Raleigh NC, Los Angeles Area<p>We&#x27;re looking to supplement our team with individuals who strive to solve problems, self-starters, and can think at scale.<p>- Mobile Developer - Android<p>- Mobile Developer - iOS<p>- MySQL DBA<p>- Web Developer - Frontend<p>All positions have possibility for FT.<p>To apply:
<a href="http://jobs.woven.com/apply" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.woven.com&#x2F;apply</a>